Documentary Challenge (Official, December 2019)

[jdidaco]

(Screenshots from 'Das Goldene Tor', 'Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea' & 'Film-Muhawalah 'An Sadd al-Furat'),



13. The Movie Orgy (Joe Dante, 1968) 9/10
14. Bij de beesten af (Ape and Super-Ape, Bert Haanstra, 1972) 8/10
15. Mi'at Wajeh Li Yawm Wahed (Hundred Faces for a Single Day, Christian Ghazy, 1972) 8.5/10
16. Ha-Makah Hashmonim V'Echad (The 81st Blow, Jacques Ehrlich & David Bergman & Haim Gouri, 1974) 8.5/10
17. Fratello mare (Brother Sea, Folco Quilici, 1975) 7.5/10
18. La Yakfy An Yakoon Allah ma' Al Foqaraa'/Il ne suffit pas que Dieu soit avec les pauvres (It Is Not Enough for God to Be with the Poor, Borhane Alaouié & Lotfi Thabet, 1978) 8/10
19. Piemule (Jana Sevciková, 1984) 8/10
20. Das Goldene Tor (The Golden Gate, Jürgen Reble, 1992) 9.5/10
21. Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea (Carlos Casas & Saodat Ismailova, 2004) 9/10
22. Bellavista (Peter Schreiner, 2006) 8.5/10




A collection of shorts,

23-24. Lernayin parek (Mountain Vigil, Artavazd Peleshian, 1964) 8/10 (10 min), Archeologia (Archaeology, Andrzej Brzozowski, 1968) 8.5/10 (14 min), Tsvet armyanskoy zemli (The Color of Armenian Land, Mikhail Vartanov, 1969) 9/10 (16 min), Film-Muhawalah 'An Sadd al-Furat (Film-Essay on the Euphrates Dam, Omar Amiralay, 1970) 10/10 (13 min), Kghziner (Islands, Ruben Gevorkyants, 1987) 7.5/10 (39 min), Sanggye-dong olrimpic (Sanggyedong Olympic, Kim Dong-won, 1988) 8/10 (28 min) (Total: 120 min)

Spoiler

1. Mir kumen on (We're on Our Way, Aleksander Ford, 1938) 8/10
2. Sopralluoghi in Palestina per il vangelo secondo Matteo (Location Hunting in Palestine, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1965) 9/10
3. Le désordre a vingt ans (Disorder Is 20 Years Old, Jacques Baratier, 1967) 8.5/10
4. Hermógenes Cayo (Imaginero) (Jorge Preloran, 1969) 9/10
5. St. Ann's (Stephen Frears, 1969) 9/10
6. Thomas Bernhard - Drei Tage (Thomas Bernhard, Three Days, Ferry Radax, 1970) 9.5/10
7. Hundertwassers Regentag (Hundertwasser's Rainy Day, Peter Schamoni, 1971) 8/10
8. Dhrupad (Mani Kaul,1983) 8.5/10
9. Massillon (William E. Jones, 1991) 9/10
10. Jajouka, quelque chose de bon vient vers toi (Jajouka, Something Good Comes to You, Éric Hurtado & Marc Hurtado, 2012) 9/10
11-12. Désordre (Disorder, Jacques Baratier, 1949) 8.5/10 (17 min), Eden miseria (Jacques Baratier, 1967) 9/10 (19 min), Czechoslovakia 1968 (Denis Sanders & Robert M. Fresco, 1969) 8/10 (13 min), To Fly! (Greg MacGillivray & Jim Freeman, 1976) 8/10 (27 min), Chitrakathi (Mani Kaul, 1977) 8/10 (18 min), Before My Eyes (Mani Kaul, 1989) 9/10 (26 min) (Total: 120 min)

[sol]

Pulp Non-Fiction

1. The Story of Kindness or How to Behave (1987)
2. Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)
3. Village at the End of the World (2012)
4. Animals are Beautiful People (1974)
5. My Scientology Movie (2015)
6. UFOs: It Has Begun (1979)
7. Please Vote for Me (2007)
8. Children of God (1994)
9. Tim's Vermeer (2013)
10. Going Clear (2015)
11. Holy Hell (2016)
12. Mansome (2012)
13. Rats (2016)
14. Zoo (2007)
15. Machine (2019)
16. Virunga (2014)
17. GMO OMG (2013)
18. Cowspiracy (2014)
19. ThuleTuvalu (2014)
20. Pearl Jam Twenty (2011)

21. Harvest of Shame (1960)



Reasonably engaging look at the conditions of The Grapes of Wrath still existing in 1960, focusing on families working in harvest fields for less than a living wage, unable to settle down and get their kids a decent education. The kids themselves are the most intriguing here with their aspirations for the future, and while all the focus on the adults feels like a bit of a misstep, the documentary makes a convincing argument for something not being right.

[allisoncm]

Spoiler

1. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) 6/10
2. The Biggest Little Farm (2018) 7/10
3. Angry Inuk (2016) 4/10
4. The Apollo (2019) 7/10
5. Everybody's Everything (2019) 5/10
6. Amazing Grace (2018) 7/10
7. The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988) 6/10
8. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) 7/10
9. Roll Red Roll (2018) 7/10
10-12. 63 Up (2019) 8/10
13. The Magic Life of V (2019) 7/10
14. National Gallery (2014) 5/10
15. What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018) 7.25/10
16. Generation Startup (2016) 6.5/10
17. Shorts I
-Slom Jugoslavije (1941) 18 mins. 6/10
-George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute (1937) 12 mins. 7/10
-Chile paralelo 56 6/10
18. Chez jolie coiffure (2018) 6/10
19. Les deux visages d'une femme Bamiléké (2018) 7/10
20. At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal (2019) HBO 8/10
21. Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes (2018) 8/10
22. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2011, Lisa Immordino Vreeland) 7/10
23-24. I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter (2019) 8/10 HBO has this split up into 2 episodes. I can change it to counting as one if necessary.
25. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011) 7.25/10
26. The Source Family (2012) 7/10
27. Thin (2006) 6/10
28. Truth Has Fallen (2013) 7/10
29. Waiting for 'Superman' (2010) 5.5/10 Important subject matter of funding for public schools, but a pretty boring execution, despite interesting subjects.
30. Punk's Not Dead (2007) 5.5/10 Discussing how punk has become commercialized and talks about a number of punk bands.

31. Honeyland (2019)
32. Ernie & Joe (2019) aka Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops (2019) 7/10
33. Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements (2019)

[sebby]

38 Tongues Untied (1989)
39 Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
40 Into Eternity (2010)
41 To Be and to Have (2002)
42 A Man Named Pearl (2006)
43 Louis Theroux: Surviving America's Most Hated Family (2019)
44 Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids (2015)
45 Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends: Boer Separatists (2000)
46 Ken Burns Baseball Part 1

Spoiler

01-05 The Devil Next Door (2019) 7/10
06 ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke (2019) 5.5/10
07-09 63 Up (2019) 7/10
10 Dream/Killer (2015) 6/10
11 Bipolar Rock 'N Roller (2018) 5.5/10
12 La région centrale (1971)
13 Echo in the Canyon (2018)
14 American Factory (2019)
15-19 Who Killed Little Gregory? (2019)
20 Meeting Gorbachev (2018) 5/10
21 Finding Frances (2017) 9.5/10
22-23 Varda by Agnès (2019) 6/10
24 ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads (2019) 5/10
25 Virunga (2014) 6.5/10
26 John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection (2018) 7/10
27 Amazing Grace (2018) 5/10
28 My Winnipeg (2007) 7/10
29 Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much (2017) 5/10
30-33 The Dust Bowl (2012) 7/10
34 Maiden (2018) 5/10
35 Alamar (2009) 4/10
36 Life Overtakes Me (2019) 5/10
37 One Child Nation (2019) 5/10
38 Tongues Untied (1989)
39 Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
40 Into Eternity (2010)
41 To Be and to Have (2002)
42 A Man Named Pearl (2006)
43 Louis Theroux: Surviving America's Most Hated Family (2019)
44 Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids (2015)
45 Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends: Boer Separatists (2000)
46 Ken Burns Baseball Part 1

[flavo5000]

126-133. Human Planet (2011)
Another of BBC's Planet Earth-esque miniseries, this one focuses on various people and cultures around the globe. Like the others, it's a beautifully shot series and also like the others, I actually liked the Making Of sections more than the actual episodes. I kinda felt bad for that guy they made walk back and forth across that rope bridge during monsoon season while they tried to get the shot. He didn't seem to care too much though.


134. And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)
This is a doc/clip show retrospective on Spaulding Gray from Steven Soderbergh. Honestly though, it's not terribly essential. You can find out all about Gray's upbringing and his motivations for what he does in his own monologues which are much more engaging to watch in full than in the short segments featured here.


135. Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' (2007)
A solid 90-minute behind-the-scenes doc on Creepshow with interviews with all the major players including Romero, King, Savini, many of the crew and several of the actors involved like Ed Harris, Andrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins and Bingo O' Malley.


136. Cropsey (2009)
What seems to start as a doc exploring a local urban legend reveals itself to be a true crime doc on a child kidnapping murderer trial. It's interesting as far as true crime docs go and is muddy enough to wonder what truly happened even though the trial had a definitive verdict by the end. Although I do feel like the Cropsey legend was a kind of bait-and-switch tactic though.

Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction

1. Why Horror? (2014)
2. Portrait: Orson Welles (1968)
3. For All Mankind (1989)
4. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
5. Free Solo (2018)
6. Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (1999)
7. D'Est a.k.a. From The East (1993)
8. Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
9. Cien niños esperando un tren (1988)
10. Enter the Anime (2019)
11. Demon House (2018)
12a. Mor vran a.k.a. Sea of Ravens (1931)
12b. De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel a.k.a. The Reality of Karel Appel (1962)
12c. The Private Life of a Cat (1947)
13. 66 scener fra Amerika a.k.a. 66 Scenes from America (1982)
14. The Rock-afire Explosion (2008)
15. Always for Pleasure (1978)
16a. Lagniappe (2006)
16b. Dry Wood (1973)
17a. My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge (1995)
17b. Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge (1991)
17c. The Maestro Rides Again! (2005)
18. Jag är Ingrid a.k.a. Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)
19. Fyre (2019)
20. Fyre Fraud (2019)
21. Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013)
22. Cabra Marcado Para Morrer a.k.a. 20 Years Later (1984)
23. Mark of the Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf (2019)
24. Adventures on the New Frontier (1961)
25. Come on Children (1973)
26. True Asian Horror (2007)
27-29. Five Came Back (2017)
30. Pina (2011)
31-34. Brazil with Michael Palin (2012)
35a. Faces of November (1964)
35b. Das Wolkenphänomen von Maloja (1924)
35c. Blight (1996)
36d. Selective Service System (1970)
36e. Mimbre (1958)
37. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004)
38. Moeder Dao, de schildpadgelijkende a.k.a. Mother Dao, the Turtlelike (1995)
39. Making of...Don't Open Till Christmas (1984)
40a. Shedding the Skin (2005)
40b. The Wild, Wild World of Dick Randall (2006)
41. Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu a.k.a. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
42. Monterey Pop (1968)
43. Living in the Age of Airplanes (2015)
44. Torero (1956)
45a. Juan Lopez Moctezuma—A Cultured Maverick (2003)
45b. Moose Magic – The George Newman Shaw & John Willhelm Story (2015)
45c. Slashing 'Dressed to Kill' (2001)
46. David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)
47. Fascism on a Thread- The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema (2019)
48. L'image manquante a.k.a. The Missing Picture (2013)
49. Lettre de Sibérie a.k.a. Letter from Siberia (1958)
50a. Dimanche à Pekin a.k.a. Sunday in Peking (1956)
50b. L'ambassade a.k.a. The Embassy (1973)
50c. Théorie des ensembles a.k.a. Theory of Sets (1990)
50d. Zoo Piece (1990)/Owl Gets in Your Eyes(1994)/Tchaïka (1994) a.k.a. Three Video Haikus
51. Casque bleu a.k.a. Blue Helmet (1995)
52a. La sixième face du pentagone a.k.a. The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968)
51b. E-clip-se (1999)
51c. The Power of One: The Pokemon 2000 Movie Special (2000)
52. Stand van de Sterren a.k.a. Position in the Stars (2010)
53. The Spaghetti West (2005)
54. Out of Print (2014)
55. Diaries Notes and Sketches (1969)
56. Huie's Predigt a.k.a. Huie's Sermon (1981)
57. Five Broken Cameras (2011)
58. The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
59. Mondo Porno (1972)
60. Innocents Abroad (1971)
61. Description d'un combat a.k.a. Description of a Struggle (1960)
62. Chats perchés a.k.a. The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004)
63. Amy (2015)
64a. Return to Party Beach: A Retrospective (2018)
64b. 12 Days of Black Christmas (2006)
64c. Mondo Macabro: Fantasy Films from Indonesia (2002)
65. Bai Ge Ji Hua: Taiwan Xin Dianying Ershi Nian Huei Gu a.k.a. Our Time, Our Story (2002)
66. Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman (2007)
67. Hospital (1970)
68. Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen (1983)
69a. Zrcadlení (1966)
69b. Odchádza clovek (1968)
69c. Voda a praca (1964)
70. Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company (2005)
71. A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)
72. The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde (1968)
73. Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder (1980)
74. Document of the Dead (1985)
75. At Last... Total Terror! - The Incredible True Story of 'Axe' and 'Kidnapped Coed' (2015)
76. Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011)
77. One of Those Nights: The Making of 'Vamp' (2016)
78. The Late Great Planet Earth (1979)
79, Workingman's Death (2005)
80. Streetwise (1984)
81. Empire (1964)
82-91. Life E1-10+Making of (2009)
92. The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019)
93a. The Scanners Way (2014)
93b. Love Beyond the Grave: A Look at Return of the Living Dead III (2011)
93c. Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights: Behind the Scenes (2018)
93d. Too Much Horror Business: The Kirk Hammett Collection (2012)
94. The Secret Glory (2001)
95. Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land a.k.a. Reporting from a Closed Country (2008)
96. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002)
97. Milestones (1975)
98. Perverse Preachers, Fascist Fundamentalists and Kristian Kiddie Kooks (1991)
99. Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg (1987)
100. Earthlings (2005)
101. The White Darkness (2002)
102. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (2017)
103. Sound City (2013)
104. 78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene (2017)
105. Lebensläufe a.k.a. Biographies (1981)
106. Le tombeau d'Alexandre a.k.a. The Last Bolshevik (1993)
107-109a. Box Art: The Stories Behind the Covers S1E1-8 (2018)
109b. LBJ (1968)
110. Moana w/ Sound (1926)
111. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
112. The Old Quarry and Other Haunted Places of Central New York (2006)
113. Il pianeta azzurro a.k.a. The Blue Planet (1982)
114. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)
115. Mondo Freudo (1966)
116a. Hanoi, martes 13 (1968)
116b. Piedra sobre piedra (1970)
116c. Ulysse (1983)
117. I Like to Hurt People (1985)
118. Sex and Death to the Age 14 (1982)
119. Scream Greats, Vol. 1: Tom Savini, Master of Horror Effects (1986)
120. Mondo Bizarro (1966)
121. Xianshi shi guoqu de weilai a.k.a. Disorder (2009)
122. Impossible Dreamers (2016)
123. Tokyo-Ga (1985)
124. Staub (2007)
125. Black Hand Strawman: The History of Organized Crime in Kansas City (2009)
125. Amsterdam Global Village (1996)
126-133. Human Planet (2011)
134. And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)
135. Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' (2007)
136. Cropsey (2009)

[ororama]

6. The Cumberland Story (1947) * 45 min.
7. Kino-pravda no. 20 - Pionerskaia pravda (1924) * 16 min.
The Dim Little Island (1949) * 11 min.
Family Portrait (1950) * 24 min.
Breaths (2016) * 4 min.
The Bassinet (2019) * 7 min.

Spoiler

1. A Defeated People (1946) * 19 min.
The Battle of Midway (1942) * 18 min.
Mimbre (1958) * 10 min.
Día de Organillos (1961) * 19 min.
2. Homes for Workers (1939) * 11 min.
Worker and War-Front No. 3 (1942) * 11 min.
Kino-pravda no. 19 - Chernoe more - Ledovityi okean - Moskva (1924) * 17 min.
Nowhere Land (2015) * 15 min.
Stories from Our Land 1.5: Inngiruti: The Thing That Sings! (2012) * 5 min.
Woman Dress (2019) * 6 min.
3. Last Men in Aleppo (2017) * 109 min.
4. One Day in Aleppo (2017) * 26 min.
About Bintou (2019) * 13 min.
Red Path (2017) * 16 min.
Stories from Our Land Vol. 2: Finding Home (2015) * 10 min.
5. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen (1965) * 44 min.

*First time viewing.

[blocho]

12. Hitchcock/Truffaut (2012)
Disappointing. This is a documentary dedicated to a book, which leaves the question of what it offers that the book does not. The answer is very little. Recordings of the conversations between Hitchcock and Truffaut substitute for the book's text, and clips from their movies substitute for the book's still images. The only addition is some bland comments from an array of well-known directors. If hearing the likes of Arnaud Desplechin and Martin Scorsese say things like "Hitchcock had a strong visual sense" is interesting, this if the movie for you. Otherwise, everyone would be better off reading the book and seeing Hitchcock's movies.

13. Workingman's Death (2005)
According to its own title card, this movie offers a portrait of work in the 21st century in five chapters, which is not quite true. The fifth chapter is a minor one, and there's also a very brief but effective epilogue. The bulk of the movie, though gives us 25-30 minute segments on workers in Ukraine (coal miners), Indonesia (sulfur miners), Nigeria (butchers), and Pakistan (shipbreakers). The key, for me, is the title. Though the serious physical risk of the work is emphasized in three of the four segments, we don't actually see any injuries or harm. So what is the "death" of the title? I suppose it could refer to the eventual obsolescence of these jobs in a post-industrial future, a future hinted at in the epilogue which is set in a former German factory that has been repurposed as a park. But I think the title actually refers to the jobs themselves, each of which has to do with deconstruction of some sort, the taking apart of things which had once been full of life, whether cows or coal (vegetable matter in a different eon). The vast majority of people in the world work either in agriculture, factories, or service jobs. It is notable that none of these four chapters depict such workers. This is a deliberate choice by the filmmakers, and there is some beauty not only in the visuals of the movie but also in the perseverance and sense of community displayed by workers who undertake difficult, dangerous labor.

14. Stories We Tell (2012)
Extraordinary. Like the best documentaries, this movie not only tells a fascinating story but also explores the nature of documentary itself. I would write more, but there's so much to say about the directorial choices made in this movie that I feel unable to do it justice. An immediate addition to my favorite documentaries and favorite 2010s lists.

[jeroeno]

86. Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World (2017)
87. Nagano '98 Olympics: Bud Greenspan's Stories of Honor and Glory (1998)
88. Olympic Glory (1999)

[maxwelldeux]

You can't HANDLE the truth

"1. Caesar Must Die (2012)
2. La flaca Alejandra (1994, Chile)
3. The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution (2018)
4. The Great Hack (2019)
5. The Civil War: The Cause (1990)
6. The Woman Who Wasn't There (2012)
7. The Civil War: A Very Bloody Affair (1990)
8. Fart: A Documentary (2016, UK)
9. The Civil War: Forever Free (1990)
10. The Civil War: Simply Murder (1990)"
"11. Hunting Nazi Treasure: Hitler's Obsession (2017)
12. Haxan (1922, Sweden)
13. Mercury 13 (2018)
14. Back in Time (2015)
15-18. Lorena (2019)
19. Das Netz/The Net (2003, Germany)
20. Senorita Extraviada (2001, Mexico)"
"21. Prophet's Prey (2015)
22. After Innocence (2005)
23. Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web (2017, New Zealand)
24. Scrum (2015, Australia)
25. Barbecue (2017, Armenia)
26. I Am Maris: Portrait of a Young Yogi (2018)
27. The Civil War: The Universe of Battle (1990)
28. Cholesterol, the Great Bluff (2016, France)
29. Countdown to Zero (2010)
30. Chernobyl 30 Years On: Nuclear Heritage (2015)"
"31. Best Worst Movie (2009)
32. The Civil War: Valley of the Shadow of Death (1990)
33. The Civil War: Most Hallowed Ground (1990)
34. The Civil War: War is Hell (1990)
35. The Civil War: The Better Angels of Our Nature (1990)
36-37. Leaving Neverland (2019)
38. After Neverland (2019)
39-41. Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery (2017)
42. The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011)
43. British Sounds (1970)
44. You Laugh But It's True (2011, South Africa)
45-49. The Confession Killer (2019)
50. Do You Trust this Computer? (2018)"
"51. David Holzman's Diary (1967)
52. Behind the Curve (2018)
53. GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (2012)
54. The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014)
55. Why I'm Not on Facebook (2014)
56. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)
57. The Movies that Made Us: Home Alone (2019)
58. Plastic Galaxy: The Story of Star Wars Toys (2014)
59. Are All Men Pedophiles? (2013, Netherlands)
60. Imminent Threat (2015)"
61. Meeting Snowden (2017)
62. One Child Nation (2019)
63. The Bomb (2016)
64. 9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers (2009)
65-67. Don't F**k With Cats (2019)
68. Over the Limit (2017, Poland
69. Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas (2017)
70. Overdose (2010)
71. VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media (2015)
72. Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four (2014)
73. Out of Print (2014)
74. Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film (2014)
75. Birth of the Living Dead (2013)
76. VHS Revolution (2017)
77. At the Drive-In (2017)
78. Official Rejection (2009)
79-84. Sex, Censorship, and the Silver Screen (1996)
85. Get Big (2018)
86-89. The Golden State Killer: It's Not Over (2018)
90. The Devil and Father Amorth (2017)
91-94. Broken (s1, e1-4) (2019)
95. Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)

96. The Movies that Made Us: Die Hard (2019)
Christmas day fun.

97. Fire at Sea (2016)
Comments in Italian thread.

98-102. The Devil Next Door (2019)
Netflix docuseries about a Nazi war criminal living in Ohio - about the guy who was the last one to be put on trial in Israel for war crimes during WW2. This was before my time, so I didn't know any of it. Very interesting to see not just the trial and evidence presented, but the cultural context surrounding it and what it means. Lots of twists and turns, and it really didn't know how it would go. Worth a watch, for sure.

[flavo5000]

137. My Amityville Horror (2012)
A film crew revisits Danny Lutz 35 years after the incidents that befell his family which were dramatized as The Amityville Horror. Danny definitely seems to be affected by whatever happened there. The filmmakers seem to intentionally want to leave it a little ambiguous as to whether the events in the house were as a result of something spectral or whether it was a highly dysfunctional family. This may not work well as a depiction of supernatural phenomena if you are looking for that kind of film, but it does actually work as an interesting character study of Danny who is agitated, seemingly traumatized, at times belligerent (especially when confronted with doubts of his story) but also is very devout in his religion and capable of being very kind like during his visit to Lorraine Warren (famed paranormal investigator depicting in the Conjuring movies who first came to prominence during the Amityville incident). Still I think the movie's hesitance to commit to a perspective on the whole thing is a detriment to it, leaving it feeling like a somewhat unsatisfying watch.


138. El hombre cuando es hombre a.k.a. A Man, When He Is a Man (1982)
This is a kind of expose on toxic masculinity in Costa Rica with images of manliness in media, misogynistic song performances and personal accounts and recollections from people who have seen both sides of the experience. It's fairly interesting but seems to want to shine a light on the issue without much in the way of solutions.

Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction

1. Why Horror? (2014)
2. Portrait: Orson Welles (1968)
3. For All Mankind (1989)
4. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
5. Free Solo (2018)
6. Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (1999)
7. D'Est a.k.a. From The East (1993)
8. Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
9. Cien niños esperando un tren (1988)
10. Enter the Anime (2019)
11. Demon House (2018)
12a. Mor vran a.k.a. Sea of Ravens (1931)
12b. De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel a.k.a. The Reality of Karel Appel (1962)
12c. The Private Life of a Cat (1947)
13. 66 scener fra Amerika a.k.a. 66 Scenes from America (1982)
14. The Rock-afire Explosion (2008)
15. Always for Pleasure (1978)
16a. Lagniappe (2006)
16b. Dry Wood (1973)
17a. My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge (1995)
17b. Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge (1991)
17c. The Maestro Rides Again! (2005)
18. Jag är Ingrid a.k.a. Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)
19. Fyre (2019)
20. Fyre Fraud (2019)
21. Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013)
22. Cabra Marcado Para Morrer a.k.a. 20 Years Later (1984)
23. Mark of the Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf (2019)
24. Adventures on the New Frontier (1961)
25. Come on Children (1973)
26. True Asian Horror (2007)
27-29. Five Came Back (2017)
30. Pina (2011)
31-34. Brazil with Michael Palin (2012)
35a. Faces of November (1964)
35b. Das Wolkenphänomen von Maloja (1924)
35c. Blight (1996)
36d. Selective Service System (1970)
36e. Mimbre (1958)
37. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004)
38. Moeder Dao, de schildpadgelijkende a.k.a. Mother Dao, the Turtlelike (1995)
39. Making of...Don't Open Till Christmas (1984)
40a. Shedding the Skin (2005)
40b. The Wild, Wild World of Dick Randall (2006)
41. Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu a.k.a. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
42. Monterey Pop (1968)
43. Living in the Age of Airplanes (2015)
44. Torero (1956)
45a. Juan Lopez Moctezuma—A Cultured Maverick (2003)
45b. Moose Magic – The George Newman Shaw & John Willhelm Story (2015)
45c. Slashing 'Dressed to Kill' (2001)
46. David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)
47. Fascism on a Thread- The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema (2019)
48. L'image manquante a.k.a. The Missing Picture (2013)
49. Lettre de Sibérie a.k.a. Letter from Siberia (1958)
50a. Dimanche à Pekin a.k.a. Sunday in Peking (1956)
50b. L'ambassade a.k.a. The Embassy (1973)
50c. Théorie des ensembles a.k.a. Theory of Sets (1990)
50d. Zoo Piece (1990)/Owl Gets in Your Eyes(1994)/Tchaïka (1994) a.k.a. Three Video Haikus
51. Casque bleu a.k.a. Blue Helmet (1995)
52a. La sixième face du pentagone a.k.a. The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968)
51b. E-clip-se (1999)
51c. The Power of One: The Pokemon 2000 Movie Special (2000)
52. Stand van de Sterren a.k.a. Position in the Stars (2010)
53. The Spaghetti West (2005)
54. Out of Print (2014)
55. Diaries Notes and Sketches (1969)
56. Huie's Predigt a.k.a. Huie's Sermon (1981)
57. Five Broken Cameras (2011)
58. The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
59. Mondo Porno (1972)
60. Innocents Abroad (1971)
61. Description d'un combat a.k.a. Description of a Struggle (1960)
62. Chats perchés a.k.a. The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004)
63. Amy (2015)
64a. Return to Party Beach: A Retrospective (2018)
64b. 12 Days of Black Christmas (2006)
64c. Mondo Macabro: Fantasy Films from Indonesia (2002)
65. Bai Ge Ji Hua: Taiwan Xin Dianying Ershi Nian Huei Gu a.k.a. Our Time, Our Story (2002)
66. Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman (2007)
67. Hospital (1970)
68. Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen (1983)
69a. Zrcadlení (1966)
69b. Odchádza clovek (1968)
69c. Voda a praca (1964)
70. Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company (2005)
71. A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)
72. The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde (1968)
73. Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder (1980)
74. Document of the Dead (1985)
75. At Last... Total Terror! - The Incredible True Story of 'Axe' and 'Kidnapped Coed' (2015)
76. Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011)
77. One of Those Nights: The Making of 'Vamp' (2016)
78. The Late Great Planet Earth (1979)
79, Workingman's Death (2005)
80. Streetwise (1984)
81. Empire (1964)
82-91. Life E1-10+Making of (2009)
92. The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019)
93a. The Scanners Way (2014)
93b. Love Beyond the Grave: A Look at Return of the Living Dead III (2011)
93c. Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights: Behind the Scenes (2018)
93d. Too Much Horror Business: The Kirk Hammett Collection (2012)
94. The Secret Glory (2001)
95. Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land a.k.a. Reporting from a Closed Country (2008)
96. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002)
97. Milestones (1975)
98. Perverse Preachers, Fascist Fundamentalists and Kristian Kiddie Kooks (1991)
99. Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg (1987)
100. Earthlings (2005)
101. The White Darkness (2002)
102. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (2017)
103. Sound City (2013)
104. 78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene (2017)
105. Lebensläufe a.k.a. Biographies (1981)
106. Le tombeau d'Alexandre a.k.a. The Last Bolshevik (1993)
107-109a. Box Art: The Stories Behind the Covers S1E1-8 (2018)
109b. LBJ (1968)
110. Moana w/ Sound (1926)
111. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
112. The Old Quarry and Other Haunted Places of Central New York (2006)
113. Il pianeta azzurro a.k.a. The Blue Planet (1982)
114. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)
115. Mondo Freudo (1966)
116a. Hanoi, martes 13 (1968)
116b. Piedra sobre piedra (1970)
116c. Ulysse (1983)
117. I Like to Hurt People (1985)
118. Sex and Death to the Age 14 (1982)
119. Scream Greats, Vol. 1: Tom Savini, Master of Horror Effects (1986)
120. Mondo Bizarro (1966)
121. Xianshi shi guoqu de weilai a.k.a. Disorder (2009)
122. Impossible Dreamers (2016)
123. Tokyo-Ga (1985)
124. Staub (2007)
125. Black Hand Strawman: The History of Organized Crime in Kansas City (2009)
125. Amsterdam Global Village (1996)
126-133. Human Planet (2011)
134. And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)
135. Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' (2007)
136. Cropsey (2009)
137. My Amityville Horror (2012)
138. El hombre cuando es hombre a.k.a. A Man, When He Is a Man (1982)

[hurluberlu]

7. The Other Side (Roberto Minervini, 2015) 6+
8. Talking About Trees (Suhaib Gasmelbari, 2019) 7+
9. Corleone: A History of La Cosa Nostra / Corleone: Le parrain des parrains Part I (Mosco Boucault, 2019) 7
10. Corleone: A History of La Cosa Nostra / Corleone: Le parrain des parrains Part II (Mosco Boucault, 2019) 7

[72aicm]

76. A Flood in Baath Country (2005)
77-85. Life (2009)

Spoiler

01-06. The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015)
07. RR (2007)
08. Style Wars (1983)
09-13. Wonders of the Solar System (2010)
14-20. Long Way Round (2004)
21. D’est (1993)
22. Nathan for You: Finding Frances (2011)
23-30. The Blue Planet (2001)
31. Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003)
32. A Alma do Osso (2004)
33-40. Human Planet (2011)
41-53. Soupçons (2004)
54. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)
55-58. The Century of the Self (2002)
59. Presunto culpable (2008)
60-66. Frozen Planet (2011)
67-72. Apocalypse: La 2ème guerre mondiale (2009)
73. HyperNormalisation (2016)
74. Landscape Suicide (1987)
75. National Gallery (2014)
76. A Flood in Baath Country (2005)
77-85. Life (2009)

[sol]

Pulp Non-Fiction

1. The Story of Kindness or How to Behave (1987)
2. Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)
3. Village at the End of the World (2012)
4. Animals are Beautiful People (1974)
5. My Scientology Movie (2015)
6. UFOs: It Has Begun (1979)
7. Please Vote for Me (2007)
8. Children of God (1994)
9. Tim's Vermeer (2013)
10. Going Clear (2015)
11. Holy Hell (2016)
12. Mansome (2012)
13. Rats (2016)
14. Zoo (2007)
15. Machine (2019)
16. Virunga (2014)
17. GMO OMG (2013)
18. Cowspiracy (2014)
19. ThuleTuvalu (2014)
20. Pearl Jam Twenty (2011)
21. Harvest of Shame (1960)

22. Before the Flood (2016)



Leonardo DiCaprio tours the world to look at the effects of climate change and question why the issue is being largely ignored in this documentary from the team behind The Cove. There are some interesting moments as we are taken on set to the filming of The Revenant; otherwise though, this brings little new to the table, mostly consists of talking heads and it makes the ludicrous claim that a tax on carbon is the best way to reduce climate change.

[blocho]

and it makes the ludicrous claim that a tax on carbon is the best way to reduce climate change.

What's your solution?

[sol]

and it makes the ludicrous claim that a tax on carbon is the best way to reduce climate change.

What's your solution?

I don't necessarily have a solution*, but speaking from experience, introducing a carbon tax doesn't work. The government tried it down here, and all that it led to was higher service prices since the companies and corporations simply passed on the tax to their consumers. One of the points argued in Before the Flood is that if stuff is more expensive, people will use it less, but when you are talking about essential services such as electricity, this is only true to a limited degree. All households need some amount of electricity, and then there were news reports of pensioners who were refusing to put the heating on at night due to the increased costs, which is not what anybody wants. It was such a mess that the government over here actually repealed the carbon tax laws a couple of years ago.

* Solution: Regarding electricity, the best thing to do would be to give every household and business free solar panels. Obviously there would be a gigantic cost involved with this, but I believe that this would have a real impact.

[sol]

Pulp Non-Fiction

1. The Story of Kindness or How to Behave (1987)
2. Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)
3. Village at the End of the World (2012)
4. Animals are Beautiful People (1974)
5. My Scientology Movie (2015)
6. UFOs: It Has Begun (1979)
7. Please Vote for Me (2007)
8. Children of God (1994)
9. Tim's Vermeer (2013)
10. Going Clear (2015)
11. Holy Hell (2016)
12. Mansome (2012)
13. Rats (2016)
14. Zoo (2007)
15. Machine (2019)
16. Virunga (2014)
17. GMO OMG (2013)
18. Cowspiracy (2014)
19. ThuleTuvalu (2014)
20. Pearl Jam Twenty (2011)
21. Harvest of Shame (1960)
22. Before the Flood (2016)

23. Bye Bye Africa (1999)



Half documentary, half dramatic reenactment, this film blurs the lines of fiction and reality as director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun returns to his native Chad to make a film set there. Roadblocks come with a lack of cinema culture (all the theatres from his childhood have shut down) and a general anti-cinema sentiment all round. Memorably, one local attacks the camera, stating that it is rude for the director to "steal someone's image" without asking.

[blocho]

and it makes the ludicrous claim that a tax on carbon is the best way to reduce climate change.

What's your solution?

I don't necessarily have a solution*, but speaking from experience, introducing a carbon tax doesn't work. The government tried it down here, and all that it led to was higher service prices since the companies and corporations simply passed on the tax to their consumers. One of the points argued in Before the Flood is that if stuff is more expensive, people will use it less, but when you are talking about essential services such as electricity, this is only true to a limited degree. All households need some amount of electricity, and then there were news reports of pensioners who were refusing to put the heating on at night due to the increased costs, which is not what anybody wants. It was such a mess that the government over here actually repealed the carbon tax laws a couple of years ago.

* Solution: Regarding electricity, the best thing to do would be to give every household and business free solar panels. Obviously there would be a gigantic cost involved with this, but I believe that this would have a real impact.

Thanks for the info. I had no idea Australia had tried a carbon tax.

[sol]

Well, it was an interesting idea and one that might have worked were it possible to force the polluters to absorb (rather than pass on) the tax cost.

[sol]

Pulp Non-Fiction

1. The Story of Kindness or How to Behave (1987)
2. Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)
3. Village at the End of the World (2012)
4. Animals are Beautiful People (1974)
5. My Scientology Movie (2015)
6. UFOs: It Has Begun (1979)
7. Please Vote for Me (2007)
8. Children of God (1994)
9. Tim's Vermeer (2013)
10. Going Clear (2015)
11. Holy Hell (2016)
12. Mansome (2012)
13. Rats (2016)
14. Zoo (2007)
15. Machine (2019)
16. Virunga (2014)
17. GMO OMG (2013)
18. Cowspiracy (2014)
19. ThuleTuvalu (2014)
20. Pearl Jam Twenty (2011)
21. Harvest of Shame (1960)
22. Before the Flood (2016)
23. Bye Bye Africa (1999)

24. Life is Waiting (2015)



Western Sahara's turbulent history as a disputed territory (still not self-governing today) is captured in this documentary. There are interviews with both historians and local Sahrawis who have very diverse ways of resisting the current Moroccan occupation of their land (calligraphy; politically charged songs; graffiti; planting walls of red flowers). There are also curious parallels to the much more widely covered and well-known Palestinian conflict.

[flavo5000]

139. The Drugstore (1980)
This doc on a Chinese pharmacy is reminiscent of the fly-on-the-wall, narrative-free docs of Frederick Wiseman, observing but not commenting on the day-to-day comings and goings at a Chinese drugstore. It's fine for what it is with a few bits of unintentional comedy like the scene with the pharmacist explaining to a group of people how to use spermicide and someone returning a used catheter (the depressed look on the employee's face when they pull it out of the box is pretty amusing).


140. The Arbor (2010)
A quite interesting unconventional doc on the playwright Andrea Dunbar, it features a combination of interviews, actors lip synced to audio interviews and performances of her play The Arbor to create a kind of play-within-a-play feeling that feels appropriate for such a complicated, troubled and volatile subject.


141a. Mondo Macabro: South Asian Cinema (2002)
141b. Discovering 'Evil Dead' (2002)
A couple more horror docs, the first is an episode of the Mondo Macabro series about horror and fantasy films in India and Pakistan (found on the DVD of The Living Corpse) and is a fun watch that gives me lots of ideas for crazy movies to check out. The second is a short doc on the UK distributors of The Evil Dead and the problems they faced with the Video Nasty shenanigans in trying to distribute The Evil Dead in the UK.


141c. Out in the Woods (2016)
141d. 21-87 (1964)
A couple of experimental films, Out in the Woods is a kind of mood piece composed of footage shot by Gosling during the making of Poem Is A Naked Person while 21-87 seems to be a bunch of footage of people on the street edited in a collage fashion. Both are light on content and heavy on pretentious aspirations. Neither are really my cup of tea.


142. Chavez: Inside the Coup (2003)
Regardless of where you lie on the political spectrum, this doc is of value not for its propagandizing depiction of Hugo Chavez but for its footage of an attempted coup to remove him from power as it played out. It's actually a little unfortunate that the filmmakers felt it necessary to infuse the doc with their personal feelings throughout given that their political opinions were not the focus of the doc. If it were more like a Michael Moore type film where the goal was to convince you of a specific viewpoint, then it'd be a different story.

Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction

1. Why Horror? (2014)
2. Portrait: Orson Welles (1968)
3. For All Mankind (1989)
4. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
5. Free Solo (2018)
6. Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (1999)
7. D'Est a.k.a. From The East (1993)
8. Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
9. Cien niños esperando un tren (1988)
10. Enter the Anime (2019)
11. Demon House (2018)
12a. Mor vran a.k.a. Sea of Ravens (1931)
12b. De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel a.k.a. The Reality of Karel Appel (1962)
12c. The Private Life of a Cat (1947)
13. 66 scener fra Amerika a.k.a. 66 Scenes from America (1982)
14. The Rock-afire Explosion (2008)
15. Always for Pleasure (1978)
16a. Lagniappe (2006)
16b. Dry Wood (1973)
17a. My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge (1995)
17b. Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge (1991)
17c. The Maestro Rides Again! (2005)
18. Jag är Ingrid a.k.a. Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)
19. Fyre (2019)
20. Fyre Fraud (2019)
21. Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013)
22. Cabra Marcado Para Morrer a.k.a. 20 Years Later (1984)
23. Mark of the Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf (2019)
24. Adventures on the New Frontier (1961)
25. Come on Children (1973)
26. True Asian Horror (2007)
27-29. Five Came Back (2017)
30. Pina (2011)
31-34. Brazil with Michael Palin (2012)
35a. Faces of November (1964)
35b. Das Wolkenphänomen von Maloja (1924)
35c. Blight (1996)
36d. Selective Service System (1970)
36e. Mimbre (1958)
37. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004)
38. Moeder Dao, de schildpadgelijkende a.k.a. Mother Dao, the Turtlelike (1995)
39. Making of...Don't Open Till Christmas (1984)
40a. Shedding the Skin (2005)
40b. The Wild, Wild World of Dick Randall (2006)
41. Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu a.k.a. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
42. Monterey Pop (1968)
43. Living in the Age of Airplanes (2015)
44. Torero (1956)
45a. Juan Lopez Moctezuma—A Cultured Maverick (2003)
45b. Moose Magic – The George Newman Shaw & John Willhelm Story (2015)
45c. Slashing 'Dressed to Kill' (2001)
46. David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)
47. Fascism on a Thread- The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema (2019)
48. L'image manquante a.k.a. The Missing Picture (2013)
49. Lettre de Sibérie a.k.a. Letter from Siberia (1958)
50a. Dimanche à Pekin a.k.a. Sunday in Peking (1956)
50b. L'ambassade a.k.a. The Embassy (1973)
50c. Théorie des ensembles a.k.a. Theory of Sets (1990)
50d. Zoo Piece (1990)/Owl Gets in Your Eyes(1994)/Tchaïka (1994) a.k.a. Three Video Haikus
51. Casque bleu a.k.a. Blue Helmet (1995)
52a. La sixième face du pentagone a.k.a. The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968)
51b. E-clip-se (1999)
51c. The Power of One: The Pokemon 2000 Movie Special (2000)
52. Stand van de Sterren a.k.a. Position in the Stars (2010)
53. The Spaghetti West (2005)
54. Out of Print (2014)
55. Diaries Notes and Sketches (1969)
56. Huie's Predigt a.k.a. Huie's Sermon (1981)
57. Five Broken Cameras (2011)
58. The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
59. Mondo Porno (1972)
60. Innocents Abroad (1971)
61. Description d'un combat a.k.a. Description of a Struggle (1960)
62. Chats perchés a.k.a. The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004)
63. Amy (2015)
64a. Return to Party Beach: A Retrospective (2018)
64b. 12 Days of Black Christmas (2006)
64c. Mondo Macabro: Fantasy Films from Indonesia (2002)
65. Bai Ge Ji Hua: Taiwan Xin Dianying Ershi Nian Huei Gu a.k.a. Our Time, Our Story (2002)
66. Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman (2007)
67. Hospital (1970)
68. Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen (1983)
69a. Zrcadlení (1966)
69b. Odchádza clovek (1968)
69c. Voda a praca (1964)
70. Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company (2005)
71. A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)
72. The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde (1968)
73. Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder (1980)
74. Document of the Dead (1985)
75. At Last... Total Terror! - The Incredible True Story of 'Axe' and 'Kidnapped Coed' (2015)
76. Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011)
77. One of Those Nights: The Making of 'Vamp' (2016)
78. The Late Great Planet Earth (1979)
79, Workingman's Death (2005)
80. Streetwise (1984)
81. Empire (1964)
82-91. Life E1-10+Making of (2009)
92. The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019)
93a. The Scanners Way (2014)
93b. Love Beyond the Grave: A Look at Return of the Living Dead III (2011)
93c. Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights: Behind the Scenes (2018)
93d. Too Much Horror Business: The Kirk Hammett Collection (2012)
94. The Secret Glory (2001)
95. Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land a.k.a. Reporting from a Closed Country (2008)
96. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002)
97. Milestones (1975)
98. Perverse Preachers, Fascist Fundamentalists and Kristian Kiddie Kooks (1991)
99. Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg (1987)
100. Earthlings (2005)
101. The White Darkness (2002)
102. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (2017)
103. Sound City (2013)
104. 78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene (2017)
105. Lebensläufe a.k.a. Biographies (1981)
106. Le tombeau d'Alexandre a.k.a. The Last Bolshevik (1993)
107-109a. Box Art: The Stories Behind the Covers S1E1-8 (2018)
109b. LBJ (1968)
110. Moana w/ Sound (1926)
111. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
112. The Old Quarry and Other Haunted Places of Central New York (2006)
113. Il pianeta azzurro a.k.a. The Blue Planet (1982)
114. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)
115. Mondo Freudo (1966)
116a. Hanoi, martes 13 (1968)
116b. Piedra sobre piedra (1970)
116c. Ulysse (1983)
117. I Like to Hurt People (1985)
118. Sex and Death to the Age 14 (1982)
119. Scream Greats, Vol. 1: Tom Savini, Master of Horror Effects (1986)
120. Mondo Bizarro (1966)
121. Xianshi shi guoqu de weilai a.k.a. Disorder (2009)
122. Impossible Dreamers (2016)
123. Tokyo-Ga (1985)
124. Staub (2007)
125. Black Hand Strawman: The History of Organized Crime in Kansas City (2009)
125. Amsterdam Global Village (1996)
126-133. Human Planet (2011)
134. And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)
135. Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' (2007)
136. Cropsey (2009)
137. My Amityville Horror (2012)
138. El hombre cuando es hombre a.k.a. A Man, When He Is a Man (1982)
139. The Drugstore (1980)
140. The Arbor (2010)
141a. Mondo Macabro: South Asian Cinema (2002)
141b. Discovering 'Evil Dead' (2002)
141c. Out in the Woods (2016)
141d. 21-87 (1964)
142. Chavez: Inside the Coup (2003)

[ororama]

8. Mountain Vigil (1964) * 10 min.
Earth of People (1966) * 10 min.
The Jolifou Inn (1955) * 10 min.
City of Gold (1957) * 22 min.
How to Build an Igloo (1949) * 10 min.

Spoiler

1. A Defeated People (1946) * 19 min.
The Battle of Midway (1942) * 18 min.
Mimbre (1958) * 10 min.
Día de Organillos (1961) * 19 min.
2. Homes for Workers (1939) * 11 min.
Worker and War-Front No. 3 (1942) * 11 min.
Kino-pravda no. 19 - Chernoe more - Ledovityi okean - Moskva (1924) * 17 min.
Nowhere Land (2015) * 15 min.
Stories from Our Land 1.5: Inngiruti: The Thing That Sings! (2012) * 5 min.
Woman Dress (2019) * 6 min.
3. Last Men in Aleppo (2017) * 109 min.
4. One Day in Aleppo (2017) * 26 min.
About Bintou (2019) * 13 min.
Red Path (2017) * 16 min.
Stories from Our Land Vol. 2: Finding Home (2015) * 10 min.
5. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen (1965) * 44 min.
6. The Cumberland Story (1947) * 45 min.
7. Kino-pravda no. 20 - Pionerskaia pravda (1924) * 16 min.
The Dim Little Island (1949) * 11 min.
Family Portrait (1950) * 24 min.
Breaths (2016) * 4 min.
The Bassinet (2019) * 7 min.

*First time viewing.

[jeroeno]

89. Dark Days (2000)
90. Eat the Document (1972)
91. Janapar (2012)
92. The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975)
93. The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife (1991)

[maxwelldeux]

You can't HANDLE the truth

"1. Caesar Must Die (2012)
2. La flaca Alejandra (1994, Chile)
3. The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution (2018)
4. The Great Hack (2019)
5. The Civil War: The Cause (1990)
6. The Woman Who Wasn't There (2012)
7. The Civil War: A Very Bloody Affair (1990)
8. Fart: A Documentary (2016, UK)
9. The Civil War: Forever Free (1990)
10. The Civil War: Simply Murder (1990)"
"11. Hunting Nazi Treasure: Hitler's Obsession (2017)
12. Haxan (1922, Sweden)
13. Mercury 13 (2018)
14. Back in Time (2015)
15-18. Lorena (2019)
19. Das Netz/The Net (2003, Germany)
20. Senorita Extraviada (2001, Mexico)"
"21. Prophet's Prey (2015)
22. After Innocence (2005)
23. Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web (2017, New Zealand)
24. Scrum (2015, Australia)
25. Barbecue (2017, Armenia)
26. I Am Maris: Portrait of a Young Yogi (2018)
27. The Civil War: The Universe of Battle (1990)
28. Cholesterol, the Great Bluff (2016, France)
29. Countdown to Zero (2010)
30. Chernobyl 30 Years On: Nuclear Heritage (2015)"
"31. Best Worst Movie (2009)
32. The Civil War: Valley of the Shadow of Death (1990)
33. The Civil War: Most Hallowed Ground (1990)
34. The Civil War: War is Hell (1990)
35. The Civil War: The Better Angels of Our Nature (1990)
36-37. Leaving Neverland (2019)
38. After Neverland (2019)
39-41. Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery (2017)
42. The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011)
43. British Sounds (1970)
44. You Laugh But It's True (2011, South Africa)
45-49. The Confession Killer (2019)
50. Do You Trust this Computer? (2018)"
"51. David Holzman's Diary (1967)
52. Behind the Curve (2018)
53. GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (2012)
54. The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014)
55. Why I'm Not on Facebook (2014)
56. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)
57. The Movies that Made Us: Home Alone (2019)
58. Plastic Galaxy: The Story of Star Wars Toys (2014)
59. Are All Men Pedophiles? (2013, Netherlands)
60. Imminent Threat (2015)"
"61. Meeting Snowden (2017)
62. One Child Nation (2019)
63. The Bomb (2016)
64. 9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers (2009)
65-67. Don't F**k With Cats (2019)
68. Over the Limit (2017, Poland
69. Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas (2017)
70. Overdose (2010)"
"71. VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media (2015)
72. Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four (2014)
73. Out of Print (2014)
74. Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film (2014)
75. Birth of the Living Dead (2013)
76. VHS Revolution (2017)
77. At the Drive-In (2017)
78. Official Rejection (2009)
79-84. Sex, Censorship, and the Silver Screen (1996)
85. Get Big (2018)
86-89. The Golden State Killer: It's Not Over (2018)
90. The Devil and Father Amorth (2017)"
91-94. Broken (s1, e1-4) (2019)
95. Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)
96. The Movies that Made Us: Die Hard (2019)
97. Fire at Sea (2016)
98-102. The Devil Next Door (2019)

103. Samsara (2011, UAE)
After our anniversary dinner, Wife and I weren't in the mood for something hard to watch, so I suggested this. My sales pitch was "pretty pictures and cool music." She was in, and this was fantastic - absolutely amazing. Just absolutely stunning to see.

104. Our Planet: Frozen Worlds (2019)
Of course, after watching Samsara, Wife wanted to roll on with similar themes, so she found this. More gorgeous pictures of, well, frozen worlds, though these docs are a bit sadder as they focus on the animals and how climate change is fucking everything up.

[flavo5000]

You can't HANDLE the truth

"1. Caesar Must Die (2012)
2. La flaca Alejandra (1994, Chile)
3. The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution (2018)
4. The Great Hack (2019)
5. The Civil War: The Cause (1990)
6. The Woman Who Wasn't There (2012)
7. The Civil War: A Very Bloody Affair (1990)
8. Fart: A Documentary (2016, UK)
9. The Civil War: Forever Free (1990)
10. The Civil War: Simply Murder (1990)"
"11. Hunting Nazi Treasure: Hitler's Obsession (2017)
12. Haxan (1922, Sweden)
13. Mercury 13 (2018)
14. Back in Time (2015)
15-18. Lorena (2019)
19. Das Netz/The Net (2003, Germany)
20. Senorita Extraviada (2001, Mexico)"
"21. Prophet's Prey (2015)
22. After Innocence (2005)
23. Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web (2017, New Zealand)
24. Scrum (2015, Australia)
25. Barbecue (2017, Armenia)
26. I Am Maris: Portrait of a Young Yogi (2018)
27. The Civil War: The Universe of Battle (1990)
28. Cholesterol, the Great Bluff (2016, France)
29. Countdown to Zero (2010)
30. Chernobyl 30 Years On: Nuclear Heritage (2015)"
"31. Best Worst Movie (2009)
32. The Civil War: Valley of the Shadow of Death (1990)
33. The Civil War: Most Hallowed Ground (1990)
34. The Civil War: War is Hell (1990)
35. The Civil War: The Better Angels of Our Nature (1990)
36-37. Leaving Neverland (2019)
38. After Neverland (2019)
39-41. Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery (2017)
42. The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011)
43. British Sounds (1970)
44. You Laugh But It's True (2011, South Africa)
45-49. The Confession Killer (2019)
50. Do You Trust this Computer? (2018)"
"51. David Holzman's Diary (1967)
52. Behind the Curve (2018)
53. GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (2012)
54. The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014)
55. Why I'm Not on Facebook (2014)
56. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)
57. The Movies that Made Us: Home Alone (2019)
58. Plastic Galaxy: The Story of Star Wars Toys (2014)
59. Are All Men Pedophiles? (2013, Netherlands)
60. Imminent Threat (2015)"
"61. Meeting Snowden (2017)
62. One Child Nation (2019)
63. The Bomb (2016)
64. 9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers (2009)
65-67. Don't F**k With Cats (2019)
68. Over the Limit (2017, Poland
69. Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas (2017)
70. Overdose (2010)"
"71. VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media (2015)
72. Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four (2014)
73. Out of Print (2014)
74. Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film (2014)
75. Birth of the Living Dead (2013)
76. VHS Revolution (2017)
77. At the Drive-In (2017)
78. Official Rejection (2009)
79-84. Sex, Censorship, and the Silver Screen (1996)
85. Get Big (2018)
86-89. The Golden State Killer: It's Not Over (2018)
90. The Devil and Father Amorth (2017)"
91-94. Broken (s1, e1-4) (2019)
95. Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)
96. The Movies that Made Us: Die Hard (2019)
97. Fire at Sea (2016)
98-102. The Devil Next Door (2019)

103. Samsara (2011, UAE)
After our anniversary dinner, Wife and I weren't in the mood for something hard to watch, so I suggested this. My sales pitch was "pretty pictures and cool music." She was in, and this was fantastic - absolutely amazing. Just absolutely stunning to see.

If you haven't watched it yet, check out Baraka too. Same director and same kind of beautiful, mesmerizing imagery as Samsara.

[maxwelldeux]

You can't HANDLE the truth

"1. Caesar Must Die (2012)
2. La flaca Alejandra (1994, Chile)
3. The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution (2018)
4. The Great Hack (2019)
5. The Civil War: The Cause (1990)
6. The Woman Who Wasn't There (2012)
7. The Civil War: A Very Bloody Affair (1990)
8. Fart: A Documentary (2016, UK)
9. The Civil War: Forever Free (1990)
10. The Civil War: Simply Murder (1990)"
"11. Hunting Nazi Treasure: Hitler's Obsession (2017)
12. Haxan (1922, Sweden)
13. Mercury 13 (2018)
14. Back in Time (2015)
15-18. Lorena (2019)
19. Das Netz/The Net (2003, Germany)
20. Senorita Extraviada (2001, Mexico)"
"21. Prophet's Prey (2015)
22. After Innocence (2005)
23. Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web (2017, New Zealand)
24. Scrum (2015, Australia)
25. Barbecue (2017, Armenia)
26. I Am Maris: Portrait of a Young Yogi (2018)
27. The Civil War: The Universe of Battle (1990)
28. Cholesterol, the Great Bluff (2016, France)
29. Countdown to Zero (2010)
30. Chernobyl 30 Years On: Nuclear Heritage (2015)"
"31. Best Worst Movie (2009)
32. The Civil War: Valley of the Shadow of Death (1990)
33. The Civil War: Most Hallowed Ground (1990)
34. The Civil War: War is Hell (1990)
35. The Civil War: The Better Angels of Our Nature (1990)
36-37. Leaving Neverland (2019)
38. After Neverland (2019)
39-41. Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery (2017)
42. The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011)
43. British Sounds (1970)
44. You Laugh But It's True (2011, South Africa)
45-49. The Confession Killer (2019)
50. Do You Trust this Computer? (2018)"
"51. David Holzman's Diary (1967)
52. Behind the Curve (2018)
53. GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (2012)
54. The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014)
55. Why I'm Not on Facebook (2014)
56. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)
57. The Movies that Made Us: Home Alone (2019)
58. Plastic Galaxy: The Story of Star Wars Toys (2014)
59. Are All Men Pedophiles? (2013, Netherlands)
60. Imminent Threat (2015)"
"61. Meeting Snowden (2017)
62. One Child Nation (2019)
63. The Bomb (2016)
64. 9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers (2009)
65-67. Don't F**k With Cats (2019)
68. Over the Limit (2017, Poland
69. Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas (2017)
70. Overdose (2010)"
"71. VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media (2015)
72. Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four (2014)
73. Out of Print (2014)
74. Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film (2014)
75. Birth of the Living Dead (2013)
76. VHS Revolution (2017)
77. At the Drive-In (2017)
78. Official Rejection (2009)
79-84. Sex, Censorship, and the Silver Screen (1996)
85. Get Big (2018)
86-89. The Golden State Killer: It's Not Over (2018)
90. The Devil and Father Amorth (2017)"
91-94. Broken (s1, e1-4) (2019)
95. Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)
96. The Movies that Made Us: Die Hard (2019)
97. Fire at Sea (2016)
98-102. The Devil Next Door (2019)

103. Samsara (2011, UAE)
After our anniversary dinner, Wife and I weren't in the mood for something hard to watch, so I suggested this. My sales pitch was "pretty pictures and cool music." She was in, and this was fantastic - absolutely amazing. Just absolutely stunning to see.

If you haven't watched it yet, check out Baraka too. Same director and same kind of beautiful, mesmerizing imagery as Samsara.

Oh for sure - Baraka was why I was interested in Samsara so much. Absolutely phenomenal film.

[klaus78]

Spoiler

a. An shab ke barun amad [The Night It Rained] (1967, 35') 8/10
1. Maradona (2019) 7/10
2. Sisters in Law (2005) 6/10
3. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) 7/10
4. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) 8/10
5. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992) 8/10
b. Ilha das Flores (1989, 13') [rewatch] 8/10
6. Hospital (1970) 8/10
7. At Sea (2007) 8/10
8. Dead Slow Ahead (2015) 7/10
9. Alone in the Wilderness (2004) 7/10
10. Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (1989) 8/10
11c. Ryan (2004, 14') 7/10
12. Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) 8/10
13. Honeyland (2019) 7/10
14. Chronos (1985) 7/10
15. Divorce Iranian Style (1998) 7/10
16. One Child Nation (2019) 7/10
a. Inca Light (1972, 17') 8/10
17. Dark Days (2000) 8/10
18. Tôkyô orinpikku [Tokyo Olympiad] (1965) 8/10
19. The Corporation (2003) 8/10
20. Minamata: Kanja-san to sono sekai [Minamata](1971) 8/10
21. Lettre de Sibérie (1958) 7/10
b. Junkopia (1981, 6') 7/10

22. Powaqqatsi (1988) 6/10
23.-26. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) 7/10
27. Mashgh-e Shab [Homework] (1989) 7/10
c. Landscape (for Manon) (1987, 18') 8/10

[allisoncm]

Spoiler

1. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) 6/10
2. The Biggest Little Farm (2018) 7/10
3. Angry Inuk (2016) 4/10
4. The Apollo (2019) 7/10
5. Everybody's Everything (2019) 5/10
6. Amazing Grace (2018) 7/10
7. The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988) 6/10
8. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) 7/10
9. Roll Red Roll (2018) 7/10
10-12. 63 Up (2019) 8/10
13. The Magic Life of V (2019) 7/10
14. National Gallery (2014) 5/10
15. What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018) 7.25/10
16. Generation Startup (2016) 6.5/10
17. Shorts I
-Slom Jugoslavije (1941) 18 mins. 6/10
-George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute (1937) 12 mins. 7/10
-Chile paralelo 56 6/10
18. Chez jolie coiffure (2018) 6/10
19. Les deux visages d'une femme Bamiléké (2018) 7/10
20. At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal (2019) HBO 8/10
21. Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes (2018) 8/10
22. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2011, Lisa Immordino Vreeland) 7/10
23-24. I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter (2019) 8/10 HBO has this split up into 2 episodes. I can change it to counting as one if necessary.
25. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011) 7.25/10
26. The Source Family (2012) 7/10
27. Thin (2006) 6/10
28. Truth Has Fallen (2013) 7/10
29. Waiting for 'Superman' (2010) 5.5/10 Important subject matter of funding for public schools, but a pretty boring execution, despite interesting subjects.
30. Punk's Not Dead (2007) 5.5/10 Discussing how punk has become commercialized and talks about a number of punk bands.
31. Honeyland (2019)
32. Ernie & Joe (2019) aka Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops (2019) 7/10
33. Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements (2019)

34. How to Live Forever (2009) 5/10
35. Ice on Fire 8/10

[klaus78]

Spoiler

a. An shab ke barun amad [The Night It Rained] (1967, 35') 8/10
1. Maradona (2019) 7/10
2. Sisters in Law (2005) 6/10
3. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) 7/10
4. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) 8/10
5. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992) 8/10
b. Ilha das Flores (1989, 13') [rewatch] 8/10
6. Hospital (1970) 8/10
7. At Sea (2007) 8/10
8. Dead Slow Ahead (2015) 7/10
9. Alone in the Wilderness (2004) 7/10
10. Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (1989) 8/10
11c. Ryan (2004, 14') 7/10
12. Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) 8/10
13. Honeyland (2019) 7/10
14. Chronos (1985) 7/10
15. Divorce Iranian Style (1998) 7/10
16. One Child Nation (2019) 7/10
a. Inca Light (1972, 17') 8/10
17. Dark Days (2000) 8/10
18. Tôkyô orinpikku [Tokyo Olympiad] (1965) 8/10
19. The Corporation (2003) 8/10
20. Minamata: Kanja-san to sono sekai [Minamata](1971) 8/10
21. Lettre de Sibérie (1958) 7/10
b. Junkopia (1981, 6') 7/10
22. Powaqqatsi (1988) 6/10
23.-26. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) 7/10
27. Mashgh-e Shab [Homework] (1989) 7/10
c. Landscape (for Manon) (1987, 18') 8/10

28d. Nuit et brouillard (1956, 32') [rewatch] 9/10
29.-36. Our Planet (2019) 8/10

[flavo5000]

143. Muse: H.A.A.R.P. Live at Wembley (2008)
Here we have a very good, appropriately bombastic live show at the legendary Wembley Stadium with the British rock band Muse. I've liked Muse since their first album, and it really looks like they put on a hell of a live show. Definitely one to check out if you are a fan.


144. Classified X (1998)
Melvin Van Peebles' condemnation of racist stereotypes in Hollywood cinema has vitriol and grit to spare with Peebles narrating the history from the streets in a very eloquent and fiery tone. The film excels at calling out and challenging Hollywood to do better. Where it falters is in a couple places. He really undersells the contributions of Sidney Poitier, who is relegated to brief mentions in the context of Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. He fails to call out Poitier and that defiant slap to the face in In the Heat of the Night which is as impactful of a moment in black cinema as most. He also toward the end of the doc really focuses on his own Sweet Sweetback and the single defining moment where blacks took back their cinema, and while Sweetback was certainly a major hallmark in the resurgence in the black film movement of the 70's, it's hardly the only one.


145a. Days of the Pony Express: Museum Edition (2008)
This is a 15-minute edit of a doc on the Pony Express (the 60-minute version is helpfully for sale in the gift shop!) shown at the beginning of the tour of the Pony Express Museum in St. Joseph, MO. It's a combination of dry, fact-heavy narration and cheesy, poorly acted re-enactments. There's one guy in particular that plays one of the founders of the Pony Express that is fond of gazing out the window (where you can clearly see a mid-century modern house across the street) as a reaction to everything. For some reason, at the end of the tour, I couldn't quite justify the $20 for the full-length version. But hey, it's not all bad. My 6-year-old son seemed to like the poorly animated, green screened-in tornado that chases a rider at one point.


145b. The Ax Fight (1975)
An old school ethnographic doc that depicts a conflict in a native Venezuelan village when some visitors stop by and sir up some drama with the locals. It also feels like a precursor to the reality TV of today with a particular female villager letting loose with a verbal assault that would put the creeps in Jersey Shore to shame.


145c. Vietnam, Land of Fire (1966)
Another anti-American political doc courtesy of Uncle Amos... I just don't really dig these.

Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction

1. Why Horror? (2014)
2. Portrait: Orson Welles (1968)
3. For All Mankind (1989)
4. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
5. Free Solo (2018)
6. Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (1999)
7. D'Est a.k.a. From The East (1993)
8. Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
9. Cien niños esperando un tren (1988)
10. Enter the Anime (2019)
11. Demon House (2018)
12a. Mor vran a.k.a. Sea of Ravens (1931)
12b. De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel a.k.a. The Reality of Karel Appel (1962)
12c. The Private Life of a Cat (1947)
13. 66 scener fra Amerika a.k.a. 66 Scenes from America (1982)
14. The Rock-afire Explosion (2008)
15. Always for Pleasure (1978)
16a. Lagniappe (2006)
16b. Dry Wood (1973)
17a. My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge (1995)
17b. Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge (1991)
17c. The Maestro Rides Again! (2005)
18. Jag är Ingrid a.k.a. Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)
19. Fyre (2019)
20. Fyre Fraud (2019)
21. Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013)
22. Cabra Marcado Para Morrer a.k.a. 20 Years Later (1984)
23. Mark of the Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf (2019)
24. Adventures on the New Frontier (1961)
25. Come on Children (1973)
26. True Asian Horror (2007)
27-29. Five Came Back (2017)
30. Pina (2011)
31-34. Brazil with Michael Palin (2012)
35a. Faces of November (1964)
35b. Das Wolkenphänomen von Maloja (1924)
35c. Blight (1996)
36d. Selective Service System (1970)
36e. Mimbre (1958)
37. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004)
38. Moeder Dao, de schildpadgelijkende a.k.a. Mother Dao, the Turtlelike (1995)
39. Making of...Don't Open Till Christmas (1984)
40a. Shedding the Skin (2005)
40b. The Wild, Wild World of Dick Randall (2006)
41. Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu a.k.a. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
42. Monterey Pop (1968)
43. Living in the Age of Airplanes (2015)
44. Torero (1956)
45a. Juan Lopez Moctezuma—A Cultured Maverick (2003)
45b. Moose Magic – The George Newman Shaw & John Willhelm Story (2015)
45c. Slashing 'Dressed to Kill' (2001)
46. David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)
47. Fascism on a Thread- The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema (2019)
48. L'image manquante a.k.a. The Missing Picture (2013)
49. Lettre de Sibérie a.k.a. Letter from Siberia (1958)
50a. Dimanche à Pekin a.k.a. Sunday in Peking (1956)
50b. L'ambassade a.k.a. The Embassy (1973)
50c. Théorie des ensembles a.k.a. Theory of Sets (1990)
50d. Zoo Piece (1990)/Owl Gets in Your Eyes(1994)/Tchaïka (1994) a.k.a. Three Video Haikus
51. Casque bleu a.k.a. Blue Helmet (1995)
52a. La sixième face du pentagone a.k.a. The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968)
51b. E-clip-se (1999)
51c. The Power of One: The Pokemon 2000 Movie Special (2000)
52. Stand van de Sterren a.k.a. Position in the Stars (2010)
53. The Spaghetti West (2005)
54. Out of Print (2014)
55. Diaries Notes and Sketches (1969)
56. Huie's Predigt a.k.a. Huie's Sermon (1981)
57. Five Broken Cameras (2011)
58. The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
59. Mondo Porno (1972)
60. Innocents Abroad (1971)
61. Description d'un combat a.k.a. Description of a Struggle (1960)
62. Chats perchés a.k.a. The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004)
63. Amy (2015)
64a. Return to Party Beach: A Retrospective (2018)
64b. 12 Days of Black Christmas (2006)
64c. Mondo Macabro: Fantasy Films from Indonesia (2002)
65. Bai Ge Ji Hua: Taiwan Xin Dianying Ershi Nian Huei Gu a.k.a. Our Time, Our Story (2002)
66. Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman (2007)
67. Hospital (1970)
68. Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen (1983)
69a. Zrcadlení (1966)
69b. Odchádza clovek (1968)
69c. Voda a praca (1964)
70. Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company (2005)
71. A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)
72. The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde (1968)
73. Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder (1980)
74. Document of the Dead (1985)
75. At Last... Total Terror! - The Incredible True Story of 'Axe' and 'Kidnapped Coed' (2015)
76. Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011)
77. One of Those Nights: The Making of 'Vamp' (2016)
78. The Late Great Planet Earth (1979)
79, Workingman's Death (2005)
80. Streetwise (1984)
81. Empire (1964)
82-91. Life E1-10+Making of (2009)
92. The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019)
93a. The Scanners Way (2014)
93b. Love Beyond the Grave: A Look at Return of the Living Dead III (2011)
93c. Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights: Behind the Scenes (2018)
93d. Too Much Horror Business: The Kirk Hammett Collection (2012)
94. The Secret Glory (2001)
95. Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land a.k.a. Reporting from a Closed Country (2008)
96. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002)
97. Milestones (1975)
98. Perverse Preachers, Fascist Fundamentalists and Kristian Kiddie Kooks (1991)
99. Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg (1987)
100. Earthlings (2005)
101. The White Darkness (2002)
102. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (2017)
103. Sound City (2013)
104. 78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene (2017)
105. Lebensläufe a.k.a. Biographies (1981)
106. Le tombeau d'Alexandre a.k.a. The Last Bolshevik (1993)
107-109a. Box Art: The Stories Behind the Covers S1E1-8 (2018)
109b. LBJ (1968)
110. Moana w/ Sound (1926)
111. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
112. The Old Quarry and Other Haunted Places of Central New York (2006)
113. Il pianeta azzurro a.k.a. The Blue Planet (1982)
114. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)
115. Mondo Freudo (1966)
116a. Hanoi, martes 13 (1968)
116b. Piedra sobre piedra (1970)
116c. Ulysse (1983)
117. I Like to Hurt People (1985)
118. Sex and Death to the Age 14 (1982)
119. Scream Greats, Vol. 1: Tom Savini, Master of Horror Effects (1986)
120. Mondo Bizarro (1966)
121. Xianshi shi guoqu de weilai a.k.a. Disorder (2009)
122. Impossible Dreamers (2016)
123. Tokyo-Ga (1985)
124. Staub (2007)
125. Black Hand Strawman: The History of Organized Crime in Kansas City (2009)
125. Amsterdam Global Village (1996)
126-133. Human Planet (2011)
134. And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)
135. Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' (2007)
136. Cropsey (2009)
137. My Amityville Horror (2012)
138. El hombre cuando es hombre a.k.a. A Man, When He Is a Man (1982)
139. The Drugstore (1980)
140. The Arbor (2010)
141a. Mondo Macabro: South Asian Cinema (2002)
141b. Discovering 'Evil Dead' (2002)
141c. Out in the Woods (2016)
141d. 21-87 (1964)
142. Chavez: Inside the Coup (2003)
143. Muse: H.A.A.R.P. Live at Wembley (2008)
144. Classified X (1998)
145a. Days of the Pony Express: Museum Edition (2008)
145b. The Ax Fight (1975)
145c. Vietnam, Land of Fire (1966)

[jeroeno]

94. Before Stonewall (1984)
95. Apa khabar orang kampung (2007)
96. Apollo 11 (2019)

[zzzorf]

1. Andre the Giant (2018) - 9/10

[AB537]

5. Prelude to War (Frank Capra, 1942) 6.5/10

[vortexsurfer]

25. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon (Douglas Tirola, 2015)
26. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (Chris Smith, 2017)
27. Free Solo (Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, 2018)
28. The Dawn Wall (Josh Lowell & Peter Mortimer, 2017)
29. The Last Shaman (Raz Degan, 2016)
30. That Sugar Film (Damon Gameau, 2014)

Spoiler

1. Tribe: Adi (James Smith, 2005)
2. Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things (Matt D'Avella, 2015)
3. Life Off Grid (Jonathan Taggart, 2016)
4. The Cove (Louie Psihoyos, 2009)
5. Tribe: Suri (James Smith, 2005)
6. Tribe: Kombai (Jonathan Clay, 2005)
7. Tribe: Babongo (Steve Robinson, 2005)
8. Tribe: Darhad (Graham Johnston, 2005)
9. Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock, 2004)
10. Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (Dylan Avery, 2009)
11. Rewind This! (Josh Johnson, 2013)
12. Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends: Christianity (Daniel Elias, 1998)
13. Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends: UFOs (Debbie Geller, 1998)
14. Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends: Porno (Geoffrey O'Connor, 1998)
15. Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends: Head for the Hills (Ed Robbins, 1998)
16. Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends: Weird Christmas (Geoffrey O'Connor, 1998)
17. Bunker77 (Takuji Masuda, 2016)
18. Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars (Jason Massot, 2012)
19. Oasis: Supersonic (Mat Whitecross, 2016)
20. Tribe: Sanema (Jonathan Clay, 2005)
21. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010)
22. Banksy Does New York (Chris Moukarbel, 2014)
23. The Imposter (Bart Layton, 2012)
24. Zero Days (Alex Gibney, 2016)
25. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon (Douglas Tirola, 2015)
26. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (Chris Smith, 2017)
27. Free Solo (Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, 2018)
28. The Dawn Wall (Josh Lowell & Peter Mortimer, 2017)
29. The Last Shaman (Raz Degan, 2016)
30. That Sugar Film (Damon Gameau, 2014)

[maxwelldeux]

25. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon (Douglas Tirola, 2015)
26. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (Chris Smith, 2017)

How did you find those two? I've been eyeballing them most of the month, but haven't pulled the trigger...

[flavo5000]

25. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon (Douglas Tirola, 2015)
26. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (Chris Smith, 2017)

How did you find those two? I've been eyeballing them most of the month, but haven't pulled the trigger...

I know you didn't ask me but I always like giving my opinion anyway.

I thought both of them were worth a watch. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is probably the better of the two.

[ororama]

9. Bird on a Wire (1974) * 105 min.
10. Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask (1995) * 72 min.

Spoiler

1. A Defeated People (1946) * 19 min.
The Battle of Midway (1942) * 18 min.
Mimbre (1958) * 10 min.
Día de Organillos (1961) * 19 min.
2. Homes for Workers (1939) * 11 min.
Worker and War-Front No. 3 (1942) * 11 min.
Kino-pravda no. 19 - Chernoe more - Ledovityi okean - Moskva (1924) * 17 min.
Nowhere Land (2015) * 15 min.
Stories from Our Land 1.5: Inngiruti: The Thing That Sings! (2012) * 5 min.
Woman Dress (2019) * 6 min.
3. Last Men in Aleppo (2017) * 109 min.
4. One Day in Aleppo (2017) * 26 min.
About Bintou (2019) * 13 min.
Red Path (2017) * 16 min.
Stories from Our Land Vol. 2: Finding Home (2015) * 10 min.
5. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen (1965) * 44 min.
6. The Cumberland Story (1947) * 45 min.
7. Kino-pravda no. 20 - Pionerskaia pravda (1924) * 16 min.
The Dim Little Island (1949) * 11 min.
Family Portrait (1950) * 24 min.
Breaths (2016) * 4 min.
The Bassinet (2019) * 7 min.
8. Mountain Vigil (1964) * 10 min.
Earth of People (1966) * 10 min.
The Jolifou Inn (1955) * 10 min.
City of Gold (1957) * 22 min.
How to Build an Igloo (1949) * 10 min.

*First time viewing.

[ororama]

Double

[flavo5000]

146. The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made (2004)
This was a lazy list. Troll but not Troll 2? Why? 3/4 of it are just cheesy sci-fi/horror from the '50s. And for some reason they ranked The Man with Two Heads as worse than Plan 9 from Outer Space... Why? The narrator is over-excited and annoying... Just all around a disappointing list.


147a. El Domador (1978)
147b. Chile paralelo 56 (1964)
A couple of 30 minute shorts from the UNESCO list showing a profile of "animal taming" in Venezuela (which seems to mainly be beating the shit out of them and murdering them) and a profile of natives of southern Chile. The Chile one is the more interesting and informative of the two unless you happen to really be into animal torture.


148. An Injury to One (2002)
A pro-union doc about the murder of the union organizer Frank Little in Montana in the early 20th century. It has an odd almost rhythmic format to it that isn't really suited to the material. It made it needlessly difficult at times to suss out some of the facts of the case. It also seemed to want to focus as much on just advertising for unions in general as it was about Frank Little. Still, the case itself was quite interesting, especially the Dashiell Hammett connection. I may read up further on it later.


149-152. Eurotika! E1-12 (1999)
A fun and informative series on European sexploitation and horror films, each episode focusing on a different theme or director. We have directors like Jess Franco, Jose Larraz, Max Pecas, Michael Reeves, Jean Rollin and Jose Benazeraf profiled as well as episodes on cult actresses, French adult films, Italian horror and more. I dug this one quite a bit.

Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction

1. Why Horror? (2014)
2. Portrait: Orson Welles (1968)
3. For All Mankind (1989)
4. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
5. Free Solo (2018)
6. Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (1999)
7. D'Est a.k.a. From The East (1993)
8. Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
9. Cien niños esperando un tren (1988)
10. Enter the Anime (2019)
11. Demon House (2018)
12a. Mor vran a.k.a. Sea of Ravens (1931)
12b. De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel a.k.a. The Reality of Karel Appel (1962)
12c. The Private Life of a Cat (1947)
13. 66 scener fra Amerika a.k.a. 66 Scenes from America (1982)
14. The Rock-afire Explosion (2008)
15. Always for Pleasure (1978)
16a. Lagniappe (2006)
16b. Dry Wood (1973)
17a. My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge (1995)
17b. Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge (1991)
17c. The Maestro Rides Again! (2005)
18. Jag är Ingrid a.k.a. Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)
19. Fyre (2019)
20. Fyre Fraud (2019)
21. Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013)
22. Cabra Marcado Para Morrer a.k.a. 20 Years Later (1984)
23. Mark of the Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf (2019)
24. Adventures on the New Frontier (1961)
25. Come on Children (1973)
26. True Asian Horror (2007)
27-29. Five Came Back (2017)
30. Pina (2011)
31-34. Brazil with Michael Palin (2012)
35a. Faces of November (1964)
35b. Das Wolkenphänomen von Maloja (1924)
35c. Blight (1996)
36d. Selective Service System (1970)
36e. Mimbre (1958)
37. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004)
38. Moeder Dao, de schildpadgelijkende a.k.a. Mother Dao, the Turtlelike (1995)
39. Making of...Don't Open Till Christmas (1984)
40a. Shedding the Skin (2005)
40b. The Wild, Wild World of Dick Randall (2006)
41. Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu a.k.a. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
42. Monterey Pop (1968)
43. Living in the Age of Airplanes (2015)
44. Torero (1956)
45a. Juan Lopez Moctezuma—A Cultured Maverick (2003)
45b. Moose Magic – The George Newman Shaw & John Willhelm Story (2015)
45c. Slashing 'Dressed to Kill' (2001)
46. David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)
47. Fascism on a Thread- The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema (2019)
48. L'image manquante a.k.a. The Missing Picture (2013)
49. Lettre de Sibérie a.k.a. Letter from Siberia (1958)
50a. Dimanche à Pekin a.k.a. Sunday in Peking (1956)
50b. L'ambassade a.k.a. The Embassy (1973)
50c. Théorie des ensembles a.k.a. Theory of Sets (1990)
50d. Zoo Piece (1990)/Owl Gets in Your Eyes(1994)/Tchaïka (1994) a.k.a. Three Video Haikus
51. Casque bleu a.k.a. Blue Helmet (1995)
52a. La sixième face du pentagone a.k.a. The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968)
51b. E-clip-se (1999)
51c. The Power of One: The Pokemon 2000 Movie Special (2000)
52. Stand van de Sterren a.k.a. Position in the Stars (2010)
53. The Spaghetti West (2005)
54. Out of Print (2014)
55. Diaries Notes and Sketches (1969)
56. Huie's Predigt a.k.a. Huie's Sermon (1981)
57. Five Broken Cameras (2011)
58. The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
59. Mondo Porno (1972)
60. Innocents Abroad (1971)
61. Description d'un combat a.k.a. Description of a Struggle (1960)
62. Chats perchés a.k.a. The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004)
63. Amy (2015)
64a. Return to Party Beach: A Retrospective (2018)
64b. 12 Days of Black Christmas (2006)
64c. Mondo Macabro: Fantasy Films from Indonesia (2002)
65. Bai Ge Ji Hua: Taiwan Xin Dianying Ershi Nian Huei Gu a.k.a. Our Time, Our Story (2002)
66. Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman (2007)
67. Hospital (1970)
68. Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen (1983)
69a. Zrcadlení (1966)
69b. Odchádza clovek (1968)
69c. Voda a praca (1964)
70. Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company (2005)
71. A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)
72. The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde (1968)
73. Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder (1980)
74. Document of the Dead (1985)
75. At Last... Total Terror! - The Incredible True Story of 'Axe' and 'Kidnapped Coed' (2015)
76. Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011)
77. One of Those Nights: The Making of 'Vamp' (2016)
78. The Late Great Planet Earth (1979)
79, Workingman's Death (2005)
80. Streetwise (1984)
81. Empire (1964)
82-91. Life E1-10+Making of (2009)
92. The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019)
93a. The Scanners Way (2014)
93b. Love Beyond the Grave: A Look at Return of the Living Dead III (2011)
93c. Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights: Behind the Scenes (2018)
93d. Too Much Horror Business: The Kirk Hammett Collection (2012)
94. The Secret Glory (2001)
95. Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land a.k.a. Reporting from a Closed Country (2008)
96. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002)
97. Milestones (1975)
98. Perverse Preachers, Fascist Fundamentalists and Kristian Kiddie Kooks (1991)
99. Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg (1987)
100. Earthlings (2005)
101. The White Darkness (2002)
102. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (2017)
103. Sound City (2013)
104. 78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene (2017)
105. Lebensläufe a.k.a. Biographies (1981)
106. Le tombeau d'Alexandre a.k.a. The Last Bolshevik (1993)
107-109a. Box Art: The Stories Behind the Covers S1E1-8 (2018)
109b. LBJ (1968)
110. Moana w/ Sound (1926)
111. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
112. The Old Quarry and Other Haunted Places of Central New York (2006)
113. Il pianeta azzurro a.k.a. The Blue Planet (1982)
114. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)
115. Mondo Freudo (1966)
116a. Hanoi, martes 13 (1968)
116b. Piedra sobre piedra (1970)
116c. Ulysse (1983)
117. I Like to Hurt People (1985)
118. Sex and Death to the Age 14 (1982)
119. Scream Greats, Vol. 1: Tom Savini, Master of Horror Effects (1986)
120. Mondo Bizarro (1966)
121. Xianshi shi guoqu de weilai a.k.a. Disorder (2009)
122. Impossible Dreamers (2016)
123. Tokyo-Ga (1985)
124. Staub (2007)
125. Black Hand Strawman: The History of Organized Crime in Kansas City (2009)
125. Amsterdam Global Village (1996)
126-133. Human Planet (2011)
134. And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)
135. Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' (2007)
136. Cropsey (2009)
137. My Amityville Horror (2012)
138. El hombre cuando es hombre a.k.a. A Man, When He Is a Man (1982)
139. The Drugstore (1980)
140. The Arbor (2010)
141a. Mondo Macabro: South Asian Cinema (2002)
141b. Discovering 'Evil Dead' (2002)
141c. Out in the Woods (2016)
141d. 21-87 (1964)
142. Chavez: Inside the Coup (2003)
143. Muse: H.A.A.R.P. Live at Wembley (2008)
144. Classified X (1998)
145a. Days of the Pony Express: Museum Edition (2008)
145b. The Ax Fight (1975)
145c. Vietnam, Land of Fire (1966)
146. The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made (2004)
147a. El Domador (1978)
147b. Chile paralelo 56 (1964)
148. An Injury to One (2002)
149-152. Eurotika! E1-12 (1999)

[maxwelldeux]

149-152. Eurotika! E1-12 (1999)
A fun and informative series on European sexploitation and horror films, each episode focusing on a different theme or director. We have directors like Jess Franco, Jose Larraz, Max Pecas, Michael Reeves, Jean Rollin and Jose Benazeraf profiled as well as episodes on cult actresses, French adult films, Italian horror and more. I dug this one quite a bit.

That sounds cool - have you seen Sex, Censorship, and the Silver Screen? 6-part miniseries about sex in American cinema history. Pretty interesting and informative...

[jeroeno]

97. Wonderful Losers: A Different World (2017)
98. Cocalero (2007)